Jurors at The Sun corruption trial are still deadlocked on all nine remaining charges despite deliberating for 45 hours, Kingston Crown Court heard today.

In dramatic scenes this afternoon, all the defendants and lawyers were called back into Court 9 at 2.49pm to hear whether the 12-strong jury had reached verdicts on the senior journalists Chris Pharo, Jamie Pyatt, Graham Dudman and Ben O'Driscoll.

However, Judge Richard Marks QC disclosed that the jury had sent him a note indicating that they were still unable to agree on any verdicts.

Before delivering partial verdicts in five counts in the case on Friday, the jury sent the judge an earlier note giving their voting numbers on individual counts. Judge Marks did not disclose the numbers then or today.

Formally asked by the court clerk this afternoon whether the jury had reached a verdict on any of the remaining courts, the jury foreman replied: "No". Judge Marks sent the dozen members of the public back into the jury room to continue their deliberations. He told them: "I'm going to ask you to retire and continue your deliberations to see if you can reach verdicts on which at least 10 of you are agreed."

On Friday the jury returned not guilty verdicts on all the counts faced by The Sun's picture editor John Edwards and the paper's former East Anglia reporter John Troup. They also acquitted The Sun's development director Graham Dudman and its former deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll of one count each.

Mr Dudman, Mr O'Driscoll and Mr Pharo, The Sun's head of news, and Mr Pyatt, the paper's Thames Valley reporter, face the remaining nine charges.

Before sending the jury out to continue their deliberations this morning, Mr Justice Marks said that if unanimous verdicts could not be reached, he would accept majority verdicts of 10-2 or 11-1.